Question #775b4
1 Answer
This sentence would be a simple sentence.
Explanation:
I find that the easiest way to identify the sentence type of a question is to first rewrite it as a statement: You do know if Valerie lives near Tracy.
After you rewrite it as a statement, you can tell that it is a simple sentence because there are no signs of another type of sentence. You can identify other sentences using the definitions below.
Simple sentences only have one clause. This can be confusing because there can be one or more subject or one or more verb. You can tell a simple sentence apart from a compound sentence because in a simple sentence, the subjects are all doing the same thing. For example, Lorelai and Kate swam and talked.
Compound sentences are two sentences put together with either a comma and a conjunction or a semi-colon. For example, Jenny swept up the kitchen and Alaina cleaned the counters.
A complex sentence contains only one sentence that can stand alone and at least one that cannot. For example, Although Lola had a few doubts, she was confident she'd aced the test.
A compound-complex sentence is more than one sentence joined by a conjunction/ comma or a semi-colon and at least one of those is complex. For example, The soup was very cold, so she decided to warm it up when she was done cleaning.
